Today in the Southern District of New York, Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill — joined by novelist Scott Turow and his company S.C.R.I.B.E., Inc. — filed a class action against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over the use of copyrighted works to train Meta’s Llama models. The complaint has six counts: reproduction by torrenting, reproduction from web-scraped datasets, reproduction during training, distribution by torrenting, contributory infringement against Zuckerberg personally, and removal of copyright management information under DMCA §1202(b).